In this book, Moses and Egle Laufer contend that severely disturbed adolescents can be assessed and treated psychoanaytically, and that their illness differs from comparable illness in older patients, and that the psychopathology has its conflicts over the sexually mature body.

Adolescence and Developmental Breakdown: A Psychoanalytic View

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Laufer, Moses

Laufer, M.Egle

Psychology & Counseling

Yale University Press

Adolescence and Developmental Breakdown: A Psychoanalytic View by Moses Laufer and M. Egle Laufer

Yale Univ Pr

This book describes the assessment and psychoanalytic treatment of nine severely disturbed adolescents. The belief that underlies the discussion is that psychopathology has a different meaning in adolescence than it does in childhood or adulthood and that the severe disorders of this period-some of which give the impression of the presence of psychosis, confused thinking, and distortions of body image-may be more responsive to intensive psychodynamic treatment than has been previously thought. In four chapters that precede and follow the clinical studies, Moses Laufer and M. Egle Laufer discuss essential issues relating to the structure of some of the severe psychopathologies of adolescence and their assessment and treatment. They address, for example, the relationship between perverse behavior and psychotic functioning in adolescence; the nature of the transference in the treatment of these adolescents; the implications for altering the course of psychopathology and conducting an analysis of the severely disturbed adolescent; and the ways to differentiate degrees of mental disorder. The contributors of the clinical studies- Ronald Baker, Marion Burgner, Donald Campbell, Janet Humphrey, Anne Hurry, Rosalie Joffe, Roger Kennedy, Kanwal Mehra, and Ranald Urquhart-present detailed clinical descriptions and raise critical issues about the psychoanalytic treatment of adolescents who are compelled to live out perverse fantasies; those who have attempted suicide or mutilated their bodies: those whose acute breakdown is a sign of an impending psychotic withdrawal.

Developmental Breakdown and Psychoanalytic Treatment in Adolescence: Clinical Studies

Medical Books

Laufer, Egle

Psychology

Adolescence and Developmental Breakdown: A Psychoanalytic View (Maresfield Library)

Self-Help

Death & Grief

Routledge

Adolescent Breakdown and Beyond (Brent Adolescent Centre S)

Mental Health

In this book, Moses and Egle Laufer contend that severely disturbed adolescents can be assessed and treated psychoanalytically, and that their illness differs from comparable in older patients, and that the psychopathology has its source in conflicts over the sexually mature body. Extensive case histories support their argument.

As our knowledge of the change and turmoil of adolescence grows, so the number of issues on which psychotherapeutic techniques can shed light increases: this monograph focuses on one of the most urgent. It provides not only practical insights into dealing with suicidal or potentially suicidal adolescents - with an emphasis on prevention of the problem as early as possible - but also a model of the way in which adolescents may find themselves becoming suicidal. Suicide attempts are rare in childhood; they are generally triggered after puberty by the adolescent's reaction to changes in his newly sexually mature body. It is the body that is perceived as the enemy, and sometimes the death of the body seems the only recourse. The adolescent who actually attempts to kill himself no longer doubts his actions or his solutions on his mental creations. At the time of his decision to kill himself, he is taken over by his need for peace more than by the fact of his own death.

The Suicidal Adolescent

This is the second monograph published by Karnac Books on behalf of the Brent Adolescent Centre/Centre for Research into Adolescent Breakdown. Drawing on the Centre's unique pool of expertise in the field, this book contains papers giving up-to-date psychodynamic perspectives on adolescent breakdown by leading clinical experts. These cover a range of topics, such as the differing developments in male and female adolescents, and the particular problems of psychotherapeutic intervention with them. It also includes the proceedings of a conference on the subject held in October 1995. Here the issues of adolescent breakdown are discussed in the wider context which workers in the caring professions must consider. Overall, this volume provides a concise, contemporary overview of a topic whose importance is increasingly being recognized both inside and outside the psychotherapeutic community.Contributors:Anthony Bateman, Debbie Bandler Bellman, Gabrielle Crockatt, Maxim de Sauma, Domenico di Ceglie, Sara Flanders, Maurice H. Friedman, Christopher Gibson, Kevin Healy, M. Egle Laufer, Kamil Mehra, Joan Schachter, Nicholas Temple, Peter Wilson

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Adolescence and Developmental Breakdown: A Psychoanalytic View

Adolescence and Developmental Breakdown: A Psychoanalytic View

Developmental Breakdown and Psychoanalytic Treatment in Adolescence: Clinical Studies

Adolescence and Developmental Breakdown: A Psychoanalytic View (Maresfield Library)

Adolescent Breakdown and Beyond (Brent Adolescent Centre S)

Adolescence and Developmental Breakdown: A Psychoanalytic View

The Suicidal Adolescent

Adolescent Breakdown and Beyond (Brent Adolescent Centre S)